{"id":120225,"date":"2023-10-21T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120225"},"modified":"2023-10-21T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T07:30:09","slug":"the-beautiful-tiny-european-island-at-risk-as-birth-rates-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/the-beautiful-tiny-european-island-at-risk-as-birth-rates-plummet\/","title":{"rendered":"The beautiful tiny European island at risk as birth rates plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A gorgeous Italian island has seen a drop in population of 40 percent since 2002, with Italy as a whole having the fewest percentage of people aged 18-34 in all of Europe.<\/p>\n

The national statistics agency Istat found via survey that the age group had dropped by three million, threatening the country\u2019s ability to sustain its workforce.<\/p>\n

Prime minister Giorgia Meloni is closely monitoring the nation\u2019s population dip, which dropped by 393,000 last year to just under 59 million.<\/p>\n

The prime minister has rejected the need for more migrants to replenish the workforce, instead announcing measures to increase the birthrate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are already seeing the impact on the labour force, just when we need workers to pay the taxes to cover pensions as Italians live longer,\u201d said Alessandro Rosina, a demographer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.<\/p>\n

The drop in births has been happening for a generation, new figures from Istat show, with Italy being the first nation where over-65s outnumber under-15s in the 1990s. By 2050, the most common age for Italians will be 75.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow over-65s outnumber under-25s. The low birth rate 20 years ago means there are fewer 20-year-olds around today,\u201d Rosina said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil the mid-70s, Italy was above the European average for birth rates, then fell to among the lowest in the world by the end of the 1980s, and has not improved since.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2021, the 18-34 age group was just 17.5 percent of the population compared to the EU average of 19.6 percent.<\/p>\n

The falling birthrate has affected some areas worse than others, with the population in Sardinia falling by 40 percent since 2002.<\/p>\n

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